Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-13

beer shot. The denial of the e~xeant.ca
by the government organ creates o feel
ing OF relief, as among Americans theirs
is o sentiment that the punishment OF
death awarded officers is too severe.
Another Mexican Outrage.
Tucson, A. T., May 12-The Citizen
yesterday published q letter dated
Saharipa, Sonora. Mexico, April 20,
signed g. D.. Garvia. The writer says
that he is an American citizen; that last
Sunday he was accosted by the project
Of the district, who asked him to vote
for him at the election then being held.
Garvia refused on the ground of being
an American, and the project sent him
to iail, where he has been eve SINCE
with scarcely any %sustenance.
Various Disasters.
st. John, N. b. May 12-The freshet
along the ST. John river grows worse.
Fredericton is in darkness, the gas
works being submerged. The schools
and churches are all closed, There is
great suffering in flooded districts, and
the government has sent one of the
Frederickton steam ferry boats to assist
in removing live stock to the high lands.
Melting nov on the upper St. John is
feeding the food.
Sand wich, Mass, May 1.-THE forest
fire that started yesterday afternoon is
the largest and most disastrous ever
known on the cape. The fire is twenty
miles in length,a few mites from Mashpe,
thence o mile and half to Sandwich
again, threngh Sycamore, Bourne and
Pocassett. The miads have changed
several times, bringing the flames very
near these villages and causing consid-
cradle anxiety, The residents of Bourne
have removed their household goods from
their dwellings, II is reported tonight
that TIVE houses were burned at Monu-
ment Beach and mi at Pocassett, be-
sides many Others in the outskirts.
Dubuque, 10, May 1.-THE entire
business part Of Earlville, q town of l..
DOG inhabitants thirty-seven miles west
Of Dubuque, was wiped out by fire last
night. The fire spread 80 rapidly that
nothing could be saved. Twenty busi-
mesa houses. four dwellings, n church
and several barns were destroyed. Only
two elevators, a hardware store, g sbank
and the Masonic buildings were saved
in the business part. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $3.50. The cause OF the
fire is unknown,
The Oldest Locomotive Engineer
Mason City, To-, May Is: The funeral
of the late j. w. Thompson, the. Oldest
locomotive engineer of the United States,
occurred to-day at the family residence
and was attended by o large delegation oil
railroad men from abroad. The FORA
tributes we're costly and beautiful, the
principal one being o bed OF MarchaI
Neil roses bordered with smilaz and
hung with rich satin ribbon, the gift o.
superintendent Graves, of the Iowa and
Minnesota division. Among those pres
ent were superintendent B. Moll and
Assistant J.B. Gable, OF Iowa and Oak.
Ola division; J. s. Anderson, VIM
Ripley, d. McFadden, Chas. Goles, E
and B. N. Lewis. The funeral csremo.
MES were performed by Rev. L. A. Hell
of the first Baptist church.
army of the Cumberland.
Washington, May 12-rhe second day
OF the reunion of the army of the Gum
berland was o perfect specimen of Wash,
ington spring weather. The streets 81
an early hour were throngdd with eager
crowds. which were increased OF noon by
the closing OF the executive depart
ment. The music Of brass bands wa.
heard in every quarter. At the business
meeting this morning Secretary Col
Henry Stone, of Boston, was selected
as the orator, and Col. William McMic-
heal of New York, as alternate to She
next reunion. Chicago wa selected al
the place and Chicamagua week in Sep
tember. 1888. ~ the time for holding the
next reunion. The present officers Of
the society were reelected for the CON
ing year.
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Higi, License IN Michigan,
Lansing, May 12-Bya pete Of 53 to
"a the house passed the high license
bill, heretofore mentioned in these. dis
patches. The general license is placed
at $500.
The News Epitonnixed. y
Five hundred brick slayers employed
at Pullman, Illinois, struck yesterday.
Second basemen AXE, OF the Duluth
base ball club. was drowned at Lacrosse
Wednesday,.
Jean Baptist Joseph Dieudonue Bous,
anlt manhar Of the French royal insti-
tnts ia dead. He was IS years old.
The editor OF the Berlin Treissinge
1eitnng has been sentenced to imprison,
mens for;one month for libeling Prince
Bismarck's political character.
One hundred and forty thousand
Austrian soldiers are under srms in Del
malta, prepared for a campaign in Nor
tenegrin. The army ia teported ready
for action ahBo.
: The sale of crown Jewels began yester.